Stackhouse v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The rules pertaining to a change of possession of goods and chattels upon a sale thereof, or to the filing of a lien thereon, and the dominion required to be exercised by a purchaser, mortgagee or pledgee of tangible property cannot be applied to a sale or pledge of indebtedness intangible of itself, only the evidence of which, if in writing, is perceptible. The conditions are not the same, and the rules of law applicable to transfers of the two classes of property differ. As to one, the possession of which is evidence of ownership, the dealings must be open, visible and public; while as to the other the business may be, as it usually is, private. The necessities of business require it.” Stackhouse v. Holden, 73 N. Y. S. 203, 205. See also Young v. Upson, 115 Fed. 192 , 195 and Frankfort Chair Co. v. Buchanan, 51 S. W. (Ky.) 179.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Aoyama v. Rose